Ableism, Queer History, and TikToks
Happy National LEGO Day! Did you know the plural of LEGO is just LEGO?
Anyway, let’s crack into this week’s threads.
#GiveUsThisDayOurDailyThread
As a sex educator, I do try to tell people to avoid buying sex toys on Amazon for a number of reasons. However, not being open to nuance on this topic is harmful:
Also this week, I learned that Martin Luther King, Jr., dealt with depression beginning in childhood. This ties directly into one of my daily threads this week:
This thread turned into a loooooong post about Ableism, Willowbrook, and The Pandemic.
Queer History
Apparently, a lot of younger queer + trans folks are unaware of why queer elders are rare. The CDC and others (‘sup Reagan) purposefully mishandled the HIV/AIDS epidemic because, well, they saw it ‘only’ affecting the LGBTQ+ community.
When a pandemic is only harming the people you dislike, you don’t have to do anything about it, right?
On a semi-related note, many people aren’t aware that we were so close to trans acceptance in Germany prior to World War II.
You can learn more here.
From Friends
Shayda Kafai’s ‘Crip Kinship’ traces a legacy of Sins Invalid’s disability justice activism by Dev Ramsawakh
I’m a High-Risk Disabled Professor. Am I Teaching In Person? by Jillian Weise
Elly Belle is hosting a new mini-series on Teen Vogue’s TikTok about cultivating a better relationship with social media
What You Need To Know
National LGBTQ group GLSEN appoints first Black, nonbinary executive director (Melanie Willingham-Jaggers)
New Study That Could Eliminate Deferral Period on Gay and Bisexual Men Donating Blood Is Underway
You Need to Hear This COVID-19 Public Service Announcement from Immunocompromised Patients
I doubt this will bring on the end times, but maybe? Don’t? Go to Pennsylvania right now?
Articles I Enjoyed This Week
Amy Schneider Can’t Stop Winning by James Factora
It’s Long Past Time to End the FDA’s Gay Blood Ban by Samantha Riedel
I Loved “Archive 81” — Then I Found Out Melody Got “Straightwashed” by Kayla
As a Black, Fat, Disabled Person in Love, My Monogamy Feels Radical by Teighlor McGee
It’s Your Anniversary: Rent Was My First Class On Anti-Capitalism by Em Win
The Secret Abortion Movement That Revolutionized Feminist Health Before “Roe v. Wade” by Faustina Johnson
Toxic Black Mold Is Growing In My Brain by Tyson Bottenus
Patchwork system for rationing a Covid drug sends immunocompromised patients on a ‘Hunger Games hunt’ by Eric Boodman
Doctors were complicit in Holocaust atrocities. Current and future health care workers need to know that by Hedy S. Wald, Herwig Czech and Shmuel P. Reis
The whitest specialty: As medicine strives to close its diversity gaps, one field remains a stubborn outlier by Usha Lee McFarling
CVS Health, Uber Health Partner on Rideshare for Better Care Access by Sarai Rodriguez
Two-thirds of people with omicron say they’ve had Covid before, English study reports by Chloe Taylor
Delightful TikToks
Everyone enjoys singing “it’s raining men” until they realize what that could mean
This song is in the running to represent Latvia in Eurovision 2022, and I want it to win
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Until next time,
Grayson